Sermons

Seekers recognizes that any member of the community may be called upon by God to give us the Word, and thus we have an open pulpit with a different preacher each week. Sermons preached at Seekers, as well as sermons preached by Seekers at other churches or events, are posted here, beginning with the most recent.

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Feel free to use what is helpful from these sermons. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and the author, and cite the URL.

Where I lived and What I lived for by Andy Holmes

Where I ived and What I lived for by Andy Holmes

May 8, 2005 

I went to Lake DeRuyter to not live life to the fullest, but to slow it down. Life is already full.  We see it in the passing cars, passing people, hours, days. But I already know life is full, we just don’t have time to see it. I went to the country to slow down life and see what is to be seen when it is not passing by in a blur.

Marjory Zoet Bankson: The Colors of Call

May 01, 2005

I would color the first stage of call Red, like a stoplight, because you are likely to feel stopped in your tracks. The teacher is going away. A dear friend dies. The founder moves. Your job ends. Whatever situation held your sense of call is gone and God seems silent on the other end of the line.

Deborah Sokolove: Seeing the Glory of God

April 24, 2005

The defenders of icons during the iconographic controversies of the 8th and 9th centuries held that icons contained the whole of creation, with animals represented by the egg suspension, vegetables by the wood panel, and minerals by the pigments that were used as paint. Without this basis in matter, the holy images would not exist. Without the ground-up stones, there would be no image of glory.